Keyboarding versus Handwriting??

There is a lot of conversation in the technology/education world regarding handwriting and keyboard. Issues such as: “Keyboarding is replacing handwriting, making handwriting instruction obsolete.” or “When and who should teach keyboarding?”

Your Task

Each group has a quote from research, an expert in the field or a teacher who is passionate about keyboarding. As a group, read your quote and determine what question about the great keyboarding debate it addresses, restate the quote in your own words, determine its implications for your students, you, your colleagues, and your district. Lastly what questions and/or concerns does this raise for you? What support and/or resources to you need to further your understanding or professional knowledge about this topic?

1. Click on you assigned page.
2. When you are ready to respond to the questions, click on edit.
3. The window will change and you will see a bar at the top that looks like this...
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4. You can now type your responses on the page.
5. When you are done click on Save